RH. Regional History Collections

Microfiche copy of a manuscript by Edward G. Mason, on local history and genealogy in early settlement of Illinois.

Reports from surveys conducted by the University of Illinois on the soils of Illinois counties. 71 of the 102 Illinois counties are included in the collection with a different county being studied each year.

Selections from the illustrated newspapers Frank Leslie’s, Harpers Weekly, Every Saturday, Gleason’s Pictorial Drawing Room Companion, and Ballou’s Pictorial Drawing Room Companion dealing with Missouri and the Mississippi River. The majority of the selections deal with the Civil War, other topics includes steamboats, agriculture, and flooding. *Oversized

Microfilm copy of the 1987 Annual Report of the Immanuel Lutheran Church, Jackson [MO].

Newspaper advertisement for Ramsdell Norway Oats. *Oversized

Program from dinner honoring company’s 50th anniversary and the Cape Girardeau Sesquicentennial, May 8, 1956 Lists company executives.

Handbooks, judging and grading instructions of oratorical league of state colleges of Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Wisconsin *also listed as University Archives Collection

Harbinger was a monthly magazine published by the Missouri Division of Commerce and Industrial Development. This issue, Volume II, Number 6, has articles on Cape Girardeau (pgs 14-31), discussing the city, industry, and the arts.

Invitations, programs, speeches, financial documents, news releases, and guest list, related to planning and execution of opening events in Kent Library for the H&C papers. See Harrington and Cortelyou, Inc. Mississippi River Bridge Papers, 2001.091.

Correspondence, engineering journals, reports, plans, financial and legal documents, charts, and photographs relating to the construction of the traffic bridge spanning the Mississippi River between Cape Girardeau, [Mo], and East Cape Girardeau, [Il], constructed by the engineering firm of Harrington, Howard and Ash (now Harrington and Cortelyou, Inc.,) of Kansas City, [Mo].